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Internet Hunting Banned in California
TheSync writes "California has banned Internet hunting. Emergency regulations will be put in place by the California Fish and Game Commission, and legislation (SB 1028) is in the works. West Virginia is considering legislation against it as well. Hunters consider hunting by robot and mouse click 'a digrace to the sport,' whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine."
It's my God given right as an American to be able to sit at home in my underwear and kill shit.
I had just wrote up an shell script to do all my hunting for me, and now this!
I agree, this is integral "Your Rights Online." I protest this grave infringement against my inherent right as a human to operate a deadly weapon using some Flash game on my desktop.
*sigh* PETA is just too extreme. And red meat is just too tasty.
-It' ok to eat fish because fish don't have any feelings. -KC
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
Does this mean no more playing punch the monkey?
My bow and I would like you to come within 100 yards and say that ;-)
I think the orginal poster is talking about tearing the heart from a 9 foot tall bear with your bare hands then holding it over your head on top of a hill shouting in sheer barbaric primal release.
In keeping with my roots, I do a similar thing when I buy a plastic and styrofoam refridgerated package of boneless, skinless chicken breast for $1.99/lb.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
But on some level you now understand what its like to crap in the bushes like a deer.
Or piss on one.
My dad and I were hunting years back on a tree farm. About 20 minutes before sunrise (can't shoot here till then) he went off to take a leak. A minute later I hear some loud rustling and he yelled astring of curses.
He had walked up to a clump of tall grasses and was relieving himself when a buck jumped up from within the grass, where it was sleeping, and ran off. My dad had pissed on it and woke it up.
He said "imagine being that buck's wife and trying to explain who's scent that is!"
R(k)
Where do you get your chicken breast for $1.99/lb? It's around $6.50 here. I think I would probably hold it over my head shouting in sheer barbaric primal release too, if I found it for $1.99/lb...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I don't think this could be funnier if you tried.
--Rob
Towards the Singularity.
Hey, there's an idea. I could set up a fly swatter with a web cam and let the world kill my bugs for me!
It's quite amazing, actually; they have evolved in a very short span of time
For those living in Kansas, they have been intelligently designed in a very short span of time.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Thank god I mostly eat meat from the grocery store - there they only kill the guilty animals! "whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine." Oh, and I here they only pluck guilty vegitables as well. Don't want to kill the innocent type.
TODO: create/find/steal funny sig.